@StephenRees@mas.to2026-10-07 18:20:17
Today in The Conversation Canada, Jeremy Wildeman of Carleton University and Aisha Ahmad of the University of Toronto explain that while a U.S. military strike on its northern neighbour sounds like an extreme “tail-risk” scenario, Prime Minister Mark Carney and top defence officials aren’t taking any chances. With the Canadian Armed Forces expanding reserve forces to 400,000 for homeland defence, Ottawa is actively scenario-planning for the unthinkable.
From Ukraine’s high-tech asymmet…
@Defiance@sfba.social2026-09-08 15:50:42
Hetty & the Jazzato Band - “Tu Vuo' Fa' L'Americano” (2015)
Classic jazz song that’s been covered a million times, but this version might be my favorite.
I just love the sound of the clarinet, and the b&w video is a nice touch.
This is a London-based ensemble specialising in elegant Italian jazz and swing from the 1920s to 1960s.
#music
@mlncn@social.coop2026-10-08 21:36:57
So intensely gross that the US government engaged in a conspiracy to groom a 16 year-old Minnesotan kid for two years to direct his justifiable rage against the US in (allegedly) the most ineffective and random-violence directions, so they could entrap him when he turned 18— and those federal agents are well-paid career professionals in good standing, will testify against the young man they conspired to point at the Mall of America and promise to provide with a gun, not one step of which cou…
@david@boles.xyz2026-10-07 14:08:18
The Hairbrush
Barbara Keating was 72 when American Airlines Flight 11 carried her into the North Tower. She had spent the summer on Cape Cod visiting her grandchildren, and she was flying home to Palm Springs....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/10/07/the-hairbrush/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-11-01 00:13:10
What happens when Washington runs amok?
Ask a Native American
The late 19th and early 20th centuries were a time of rapid expansion for the United States.
Native Americans, and their claims to land and sovereignty, stood in the way.
In order to solve this “Indian problem” Washington sought to destroy tribes and tribalism.
It was an effort buoyed by moneyed interests who wanted to profit from tribal resources,
and by religiously minded folks who wanted …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-11-01 00:03:14
@ckent@urbanists.social2026-10-02 01:16:08
You can still get America.gov’s chatbot to come out of its shell if you encourage it gently, with technocractic enticements and a pinch of ignorance.
#Jan6 #ChatBots #americagov
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-10-23 15:33:03
@vrandecic@mas.to2026-10-23 06:19:48
An article on the Fall of Scientific American.
Scientific publishers should be independent. But:
"Springer Nature felt that Scientific American’s criticism of Trump was threatening their broader business—selling subscriptions to their scientific journals. The federal government was a major client."
Scientific American will be for many Semantic Web researchers a special place because of that one article by Tim Berners-Lee, Jim Hendler and Ora Lassila. Thus it's…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-31 19:38:12
Experts have long warned that immigration dragnets will inevitably result not only in the erosion of rights for immigrants
but also for citizens.
Since the start of this Trump administration, we've watched those warnings come true.
https://projects.propublica.org/americ…
